It was like serving fried turkey instead of going old-school and baking it. So in the wake of the Texans' 34-31 overtime victory over the Lions, let's hand out the Fried Turkey Awards.

The first award goes to Lions coach Jim Schwartz.

The Lions had a 10-point lead in the third quarter, and all the momentum, but that disappeared because of a play that should have been reviewed, but it wasn't reviewed, because Schwartz asked for it to be reviewed.

Got that?

It all started when Houston's Justin Forsett -- ALLEGEDLY! -- scored on an 81-yard run.

Even though his elbow was down.

Even though his knee was down.

Even though half the Lions stopped for lunch.

BECAUSE IT WAS OBVIOUS HE WAS DOWN!

The play would have been automatically reviewed -- every scoring play in the NFL is reviewed -- because, well, so much is riding on these games between all the gamblers and the folks playing fantasy football.

But Schwartz got too excited -- "I had the flag out of my pocket before he even scored," Schwartz said -- and he threw out his red flag. The Lions were penalized for trying to review a play that was already going to be reviewed, so they couldn't review it.

In the end, Schwartz knew the rule but had a brain fart.

"I overreacted in that situation and it cost us a touchdown," Schwartz said. "That's my fault."

• And that brings us to another Fried Turkey Award, which goes to the refs. It was a horrible call. They blew it on the field.

• Another Fried Turkey Award goes to the NFL. It is a pathetic rule. Idiotic. And doesn't make sense. The NFL should be ashamed.

• Another Fried Turkey Award goes to Brandon Pettigrew. Whoops. Hold on to that turkey, big fella. You just dropped it. Which figures. Pettigrew dropped a couple of passes and fumbled the ball in overtime, as the Lions were driving into field-goal range.

• Another Fried Turkey Award goes to Jason Hanson, who missed a 47-yard field goal in overtime, clanking the right upright. "I don't know what to say," Hanson said. "Just started right and went right at that upright."

• Another Fried Turkey Award goes to Ndamukong Suh, who kicked Houston quarterback Matt Schaub a few inches south of his belly button. Now, it's possible that it was accidental, an honest mistake, and Suh was simply trying to stomp on him. No. Whoops. We mean, maybe, it was accidental. But, in the end, we aren't sure. Schaub sounded pretty convinced. "I really don't have anything to say about that play or that person," Schaub said.

• Another Fried Turkey Award goes to quarterback Matthew Stafford, who was sacked two times in the fourth quarter by Houston defensive end J.J. Watt.

It happened both times on third down and the sacks took the Lions out of field-goal range. If Stafford simply had gotten rid of the ball, the Lions could have scored some points to prevent overtime. "Anything you can do to take points off the board is huge," Watt said, "and obviously to take a field goal off the board is a big play."

But Stafford didn't make any excuses. "I don't know what we deserve," he said, after his arm nearly fell off after throwing the ball 61 times for 441 yards. "We deserve what we got we deserved."

• Another Fried Turkey Award goes to wide receiver Titus Young, who sat out this game because he has a bad case of Infantile Immature Interruptus.

• Another Fried Turkey Award goes to Kyle Vanden Bosch, who dropped an interception inside the 10-yard line. All he had to do was open his arms, open his eyes, catch the ball, fall down and the Lions would have won. "I mean, I don't expect plays like that," he said, "and it's not something we practice but it's a play I should make. I couldn't make it."